Comment by i_love_retros
5 days ago
> They also have a nasty habit of being aware of nefarious practices, will resist all attempts to and harvest their data
Lol what? Most of the hackernews gang consider themselves nerds and they lap this shit up! Every new overpriced and unnecessary product that gets released by google, meta, openai, anthropic, whoever, they lap it up!
The usage of Chrome and even worse nitpicking of Firefox is such a strange thing about this community.
Is everyone here actually a nerd? Or do they just work in tech. You might think they're the same but plenty of people wouldn't. There's certainly different types of nerds
I think there's a difference between tech enthusiasts and nerds. Sometimes they might overlap a bit as the technology and the commercialisation overlaps (e.g crypto Vs nfts) but I don't think they're the same thing. My napkin theory is that anything that makes you the end user in their product roadmap (e.g Claude, Ubuntu, AWS) gets tech fans while anything that might not be a fully coherent product but has you figuring out using it gets nerd fans (e.g open models, Debian, Home labs)
Not really. I use cloud AI a bit for development but I don't put personal data in it. That only runs on my local systems.
I also swap all the time for whoever is cheapest